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International Merchant Solutions has signed a multiyear deal with Phoenix Managed Networks for PhoeniXSentry, a cloud-based network management service and built-in firewall router.

American card issuers and acquirers are "dragging their feet" on the transition to the EMV chip card standard, but some companies hope to speed the transition by making a clear business case for the technology.

Verifi, a payments gateway and risk management provider for online merchants, intends to reduce the friendly-fraud chargebacks these merchants face by using Jumio's payment card scanning technology.

Loomis Armored U.S. is now an armored courier service provider for Fifth Third Bank's currency processing.

Louisiana is owed nearly $1.4 billion. The state's Cash Management Review Board will meet Friday to discuss collection options.

Fair Isaac has completed its $115-million acquisition of Adeptra, a privately held company that provides technology for reducing fraud and credit risk.

ATM operators have long expressed confusion about the migration to EMV chip-card technology in the U.S., since the card brands were focused mainly on point of sale terminals. MasterCard made things far clearer today with its announcement of an October 2016 deadline for a liability shift for ATM operators.

Having exhausted warning notices and phone calls from collection agencies, Illinois Tollway officials are taking violators to court to try to recover $300 million in unpaid tolls and fines.

Banks and credit unions that have watched from the sidelines as the likes of Square, PayPal and Intuit built a mobile-payments market from scratch now have their own product to offer — a product merchants can't get off a retail-store shelf or from an independent sales organization.

Advanced encryption methods, mobile payment security and various other technologies figure to be major topics once again when the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council's participants meet this week.

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council plans to recruit more soldiers in its ongoing war against fraudsters and cybercrooks. A new program allows any qualified individual to become a certified PCI Professional.

Subprime borrowers are receiving as large a portion of new car loans as they did right before the start of the financial crisis, according to a study by Experian's auto finance research unit.

A common criticism of daily-deals providers such as Groupon and LivingSocial is that merchants using those services generally don't always receive return visits or sufficient data to use in designing long-term customer-loyalty plans.

In Virginia, car title lending is thriving after changes in laws the past two years imposed new regulations on lenders in many areas but allowed them to operate in the commonwealth.

The rate at which lenders declare credit card loans uncollectible ticked up at four of the six largest issuers in July from the previous month.

Just as the plastic card liberated many consumers from a reliance on cash and coin, alternative payment sources are gaining enough adoption to steal transactions from plastic — with a little help from the very companies these digital currencies threaten.

Delinquency rates across credit card, home and auto finance accounts dropped by double-digit percentages in July compared with a year ago, according to Equifax.

Borrowers are paying down their card and loan debts. The big exception is student loans, according to new data published by Equifax.

Kaspersky Lab, a developer of secure content and threat management products, has released new versions of its Internet security and anti-virus offerings designed to protect online payments and online banking users.

Fair Isaac spotted a spike in U.S. credit card fraud taking place online, by mail and over the telephone.